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LSU has an administration that cares about winning.

We don't.

There is zero pressure on Manny. We just lost to FIU and finished 6-6, and we get not one peep from Blake James, Hillarie Bass, or Julio Frenk.

Deafening silence coming from Coral Gables.... aka North Korea.

They don't give a ****.
 
troyskiles said:
They may still be a little to arrogant to understand it at this point, but after they are all fired once, it will probably make sense.

Big Ed O Changes
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Fair sentiment, but again, just because our fans are frustrated with 15 years of sub-par football at Miami—you can't compare these "old dogs" to a first-year, first-time 45-year old head coach. Articles about Orgeron this week, articles about Butch Davis weeks back—now 24 years removed from his inaugural season at Miami, which was full of his own share of blunders, while sticking by useless coordinators (re: didn't fire the useless Bill Miller until he gave up 134 points and a zillion yards his final three games of 1998; Syracuse, UCLA and NC State—two of those being victories.)

It sucks that Miami as a program has "settled" on lesser guys or up-and-comers—or that the job simply isn't as desirable as some want to believe it is—but none of that changes the fact this has been an ongoing issue and it's currently in the hands of a first-year guy who like most of us in life, has to learn some things the hard way.

Throwing out the fact that Ed Orgeron is at a SEC football factory, with endless amounts of money, fan support and alumni dollars being pumped into the program—he's also 58 years old and is 14 years removed from his first stint as a head coach; failing miserable at Ole Miss over three years (10-25), where he spoke on College GameDay weeks back (before the Alabama game) about all the mistakes he made earlier in his head coaching career.

All these years later, yeah, he's figured some things out and finally gets it—but that was also after failing at Southern Cal, as well—and landing at LSU in an interim position, where fans wanted to run him off after losing to Troy in his 9-4 inaugural season.

Our fans want to praise Matt Rhule for turning around a Baylor program that was NOWHERE NEAR in as bad of shape as Miami; Art Briles building a Big XII power over eight seasons, winning the conference twice (2013, 2014) and going 32-7 over his final three years before running off; where Jim Grobe one a one-year, post-scandal stopgap that went 7-6 before Rhule rolled in and went 1-11, losing to Liberty and lowly UTSA (a program that's only been around since 2011 and is even worse than losing to FIU.)

Everyone is sucking off Rhule here in year three—ignoring that 8-17 run his first two years, with a program that was reaching New Years Six bowls a few years before he showed up—but wants Diaz to have it all figured out year one; no margin for errors and thinking / acting / behaving like guys who have decades more experience than him?
 
RightSaidFred said:
LSU has an administration that cares about winning.

We don't.

There is zero pressure on Manny. We just lost to FIU and finished 6-6, and we get not one peep from Blake James, Hillarie Bass, or Julio Frenk.

Deafening silence coming from Coral Gables.... aka North Korea.

They don't give a ****.
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Again, LSU has a fan base and alumni base that pour an assload of money into their football program—Miami doesn't, hence why the admin "doesn't care about winning"

Georgia just dumped $200M into their football program; most of it coming from alumni dollars. The Dawgs just signed up 1,100+ new members to their Magill Society in 2018 at a MINIMUM of $25,000 per person (that initiative alone equalling at least $27.5M.)

$13M budget for their head coaches and a NCAA-leading $7M annual recruiting budget—again, mostly due to alumni dollars poured into the program.

Miami's fan base is mostly non-alum who barely pack a stadium 2/3 full and are raising money on message boards to put up "we deserve better" billboards.

If you can't see the difference between powerhouse state schools that are running football factories by way of big alumni donations and support—versus what's going on at Miami—you're never gonna get it.

LSU has roughly 26,000 undergrads and the University of Georgia has just over 38,000—both in proper college towns where most alumni stick around and live and die by their respective programs, taking great pride in their academic and athletic success.

The University of Miami has 11,000—in a pro-sports, event-driven, diverse city full of transplants. The financial support will NEVER be the same, so the two cannot be compared.

The day UM is getting 1,100+ new alum sign-ups annually—literally 10% of the current undergrad student body—at $25,000 a clip; THAT will be the day you see athletics go next level and not a day before.

Until then, it's adidas checks, ACC rev-share money and the little bit of money that trickles in from families like the Soffers or Schwartz crews.
 
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ItsAUThing.com said:
Again, LSU has a fan base and alumni base that pour an assload of money into their football program—Miami doesn't, hence why the admin "doesn't care about winning"

Georgia just dumped $200M into their football program; most of it coming from alumni dollars. The Dawgs just signed up 1,100+ new members to their Magill Society in 2018 at a MINIMUM of $25,000 per person (that initiative alone equalling at least $27.5M.)

$13M budget for their head coaches and a NCAA-leading $7M annual recruiting budget—again, mostly due to alumni dollars poured into the program.

Miami's fan base is mostly non-alum who barely pack a stadium 2/3 full and are raising money on message boards to put up "we deserve better" billboards.

If you can't see the difference between powerhouse state schools that are running football factories by way of big alumni donations and support—versus what's going on at Miami—you're never gonna get it.

LSU has roughly 26,000 undergrads and the University of Georgia has just over 38,000—both in proper college towns where most alumni stick around and live and die by their respective programs, taking great pride in their academic and athletic success.

The University of Miami has 11,000—in a pro-sports, event-driven, diverse city full of transplants. The financial support will NEVER be the same, so the two cannot be compared.

The day UM is getting 1,100+ new alum sign-ups annually—literally 10% of the current undergrad student body—at $25,000 a clip; THAT will be the day you see athletics go next level and not a day before.

Until then, it's adidas checks, ACC rev-share money and the little bit of money that trickles in from families like the Soffers or Schwartz crews.
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Miami needs a Nike/Phil Knight type booster.
 
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ItsAUThing.com said:
Again, LSU has a fan base and alumni base that pour an assload of money into their football program—Miami doesn't, hence why the admin "doesn't care about winning"

Georgia just dumped $200M into their football program; most of it coming from alumni dollars. The Dawgs just signed up 1,100+ new members to their Magill Society in 2018 at a MINIMUM of $25,000 per person (that initiative alone equalling at least $27.5M.)

$13M budget for their head coaches and a NCAA-leading $7M annual recruiting budget—again, mostly due to alumni dollars poured into the program.

Miami's fan base is mostly non-alum who barely pack a stadium 2/3 full and are raising money on message boards to put up "we deserve better" billboards.

If you can't see the difference between powerhouse state schools that are running football factories by way of big alumni donations and support—versus what's going on at Miami—you're never gonna get it.

LSU has roughly 26,000 undergrads and the University of Georgia has just over 38,000—both in proper college towns where most alumni stick around and live and die by their respective programs, taking great pride in their academic and athletic success.

The University of Miami has 11,000—in a pro-sports, event-driven, diverse city full of transplants. The financial support will NEVER be the same, so the two cannot be compared.

The day UM is getting 1,100+ new alum sign-ups annually—literally 10% of the current undergrad student body—at $25,000 a clip; THAT will be the day you see athletics go next level and not a day before.

Until then, it's adidas checks, ACC rev-share money and the little bit of money that trickles in from families like the Soffers or Schwartz crews.
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If Miami's athletic department is strapped for cash, then that's on Blake James. Fundraising and handling departmental finances are his responsibility.

In the meantime, it seems we're overpaying for an under-performing coaching staff.

So not only does Blake James suck at picking coaches, he sucks at raising money and running the athletic department.
 
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